Popup Buddylist

[shadow82x]

In both myBB, and vbulletin they have a feature where you can open up a popup buddylist from the index. It shows the buddies avatars, last login, and online status of the buddy without going to hid/her profile. I have seen others request this, and I feel the community would benefit greatly with this mod.


Refer to screenshot for more details.

[Arantor]

Where would the link to open it be?

[shadow82x]

Where would the link to open it be?

Perhaps a menu tab titled BuddyList? Not quite sure where else it can be placed.

[aw06]

Where would the link to open it be?

New [Buddy List] Tab beside [members] tab .. or a drop down of the Members tab (SMF 2.0)

[Arantor]

The problem with making it part of the dropdown is that not all themes use it (e.g. none of the bundled themes use it in SMF 2, though I believe RC2's Curve does)

I'm toying with making this, but I'm hesitant to make it for 1.1.

[shadow82x]

Meh. Screw SMF1.1.

[Arantor]

That's the spirit

Seriously, I am contemplating this, but I think it'd just be a tab in the menu rather than anything else.

[Costa]

Meh. Screw SMF1.1.

+1

[aw06]

Meh. Screw SMF1.1.

-infinity 

[Arantor]

The one reason I don't want to do this for 1.1 is the support hassle that comes with it. If I write it for 1.1, I can guarantee now that 2/3 or more of posts in the support thread will be "how do I add the button to the menu".

I want to make mods, not forever support them. Because if I'm answering support questions about my own mods, I'm not writing new ones. You'll notice with my mods, they are generally not theme related and install without hassle on most themes. This just wouldn't be possible with 1.1 because it's an edit to index.template.php which is different in almost every theme.

[aw06]

could maybe implement it on profile view beside the msn/yahoo/etc icons

If the person has no buddies as yet it would send them to this page
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=profile;area=buddies;u=46050

[Arantor]

The idea of this mod is not to put it in the profile area though. And any mod that affects profile will clash with Ultimate Profile or S-Ace's improved profile mod.

[aw06]

The idea of this mod is not to put it in the profile area though. And any mod that affects profile will clash with Ultimate Profile or S-Ace's improved profile mod.

well with his mod new profile look, everything is shown when you actually go on a persons profile page ... I was referring to the profile summary on every post page below usernames ...

If not beside the msn/yahoo/etc ... beside the homepage/profile/pm buttons

[shadow82x]

The idea of this mod is not to put it in the profile area though. And any mod that affects profile will clash with Ultimate Profile or S-Ace's improved profile mod.

Yeah the idea is to easily access the buddylist using a popup on any page without going to the profile.

If you want a new layout/look for the buddies on the profile page thats a separate request.

[aw06]

Another possible location ....

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[Arantor]

Still a template edit, and one that's even harder to get right than the menu in 1.1.

[aw06]

Still a template edit, and one that's even harder to get right than the menu in 1.1.

most mods require template edits for custom themes ... it would be one less step than to add another navigation button...

For now .. im going to do the edit and just point it to the buddy list page 

[Arantor]

It'd still be an edit, and at least with navigation buttons there's usually a standard format to use for all the other ones.

Adding this would actually take up more time to support since I'd have to dig through the code longer.

I cannot see any way for 1.1 that I'd be prepared to make this without having endless support questions which I really don't have the time to support without giving up writing new mods.

[aw06]

.. lol ,, ok man . you win, Still not tempting for me to upgrade to 2.0. who knows maybe one day.

I did the edits to my boards ...



Thanks Shadow82x for the initial idea

[Arantor]

And you have a nicely custom template that I'd never DARE attempt to try and manage in mod editing by the looks of things.

As for not upgrading, the list of features in 2.0 is sweet, not to mention the fact that way less mods have to be manually added

Once I finish up my current 2.0 only mod, this one will be next.